Man steals phone from Ebola patient at Uganda hospital, gets Ebola - Polidicks

[quote]JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — We'd make fun of this crook, if only we didn't feel a little bad for him. According to a report from the Sunday Monitor, a man stole a mobile phone from a patient in an isolation ward at Kagadi Hospital, in Western Uganda. As it turns out, the patient was suffering from Ebola, one of numerous cases in a recent outbreak in Uganda. The patient later died from the hemorrhagic fever. But before dying, he reported the theft of his phone to hospital security, who began investigating. Police detectives traced the suspected thief, age 40, after he began communicating with friends using the stolen phone. The Monitor reported that "as police zeroed in on him, he developed symptoms similar to those of Ebola and sought medication at the hospital." More from GlobalPost: Ebola outbreak may have spread at baby's funeral “The suspect is admitted at Kagadi Hospital with clinical signs of Ebola," Dr. Dan Kyamanywa, the Kibaale District Health Officer, told the Monitor. Ebola virus, which causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is considered one of the world's most terrifying viruses: victims tend to die bloody and painful deaths, bleeding from every orifice. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni warned in a televised broadcast that people should refrain from physical contact like shaking hands, casual sex and do-it-yourself burials to reduce the chance of contracting Ebola. And from stealing cell phones, evidently.[/quote] [url]http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/man-steals-phone-ebola-patient-uganda-hospital-gets-ebola[/url]

Good game

What a bloody twit.

[QUOTE=slbobo;37424943]What a bloody twit.[/QUOTE] I'd imagine he's going to be quiet bloody.

Wow, how ironic... He steals from someone who has ebola and in return he gets ebola.

This isn't funny, it's another person who's going to die due to ignorance.

Karma at work right there

Karma is a BITCH [editline]27th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=RocKRebel;37424986]This isn't funny, it's another person who's going to die due to ignorance.[/QUOTE] Oh boo hoo, Cry me a river. We all think it's halarious.

For the first time ever I felt sorry for a thief.

[QUOTE=nomad1;37424978]Wow, how ironic... He steals from someone who has ebola and in return he gets ebola.[/QUOTE] that's not ironic at all!!!

Ebola's one of the worst diseases out there. Don't know if this is true, but I've heard of some cases where people's insides liquefy because they're hemorrhaging so violently.

[QUOTE=Upgrade123;37425045]Ebola's one of the worst diseases out there. Don't know if this is true, but I've heard of some cases where people's insides liquefy because they're hemorrhaging so violently.[/QUOTE] They do. It literally eats you from the inside out and then you bleed from any and every opening on you body. It's a terrifying disease.

How does one get Ebola?

He...he doesn't deserve this this fucking sucks, hopefully...well fuck, hopefully...it isn't too bad I guess.

Thievery should be punished, but not like this. :smith:

Holy damn, Ebola is one of the things you can be really scared of.

He wasn't trying to steal the phone. He was trying to steal ebola and got a phone.

Karma escalated shit pretty quickly.

Karma just went from shooting you in the foot with 9mm to shooting you in the face with a deer slug

[QUOTE=overpain;37424932]JOHANNESBURG, South Africa outbreak in Uganda [/QUOTE] What?

Well, assuming he survives... I can bet he won't steal again.

[QUOTE=Kirbyfactor;37425084]How does one get Ebola?[/QUOTE] By stealing a phone from a Ebola patient

[QUOTE=jason3232;37425349]By stealing a phone from a Ebola patient[/QUOTE] The guy he stole the phone from must've stolen it from someone else who had Ebola.

What I find sad is not that some schmuck got ebola, but that apparently the shit is spreading at large. That's not good at all.

I hope he calls a doctor.

So if a patient with Ebola touches a door handle or puts their hands on a table and someone else touches it does that person also get infected?

Darwin Award?

[QUOTE=matthall765;37425276]What?[/QUOTE] South Africa is where they're reporting from. Uganda is what they're reporting about.

[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;37425049]They do. It literally eats you from the inside out and then you bleed from any and every opening on you body. It's a terrifying disease.[/QUOTE] That sounds as horrible as those campfire horror stories where theres a monster that "kills you so much that it feels like you die twice". You know, something really terrifying.

Talk about textbook example of karma.